Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 2 | Other birds of prey may also arouse strong responses if they sit in a conspicuous position during the daylight hours . |
| 3 | LARGE companies are ready to demand the resignation of Prof Stephen Littlechild , the electricity industry regulator , if they fail in a new attempt to gain cheaper electricity . |
| 4 | Holden calls someone a ‘ phoney ’ if they behave in a superficial way , or if they value the wrong things , for example money and beauty , and are hypocritical in order to be accepted in society . |
| 5 | Moore 's way of putting it might be defended on the basis of a realist view of universals for which individual horses are horses because they participate in a universal object horse , and do so in virtue of the fact that they have parts participating in universal objects which are parts of the universal object horse and related to each other in ways which participate in the universal relations linking part to whole in the universal object . |
| 6 | You mean because they live in a different county . |
| 7 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 8 | Even when they sleep in a separate room . |
| 9 | I look forward to seeing the amendments that will be tabled by my right hon. Friend for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) and others when they look in a measured way at the Bill and seek to amend it to provide the support for the prison service that is so desperately needed . |
| 10 | When the people from Furnace Road visit the new housing estates they feel hemmed in , for though they live in a tight little terrace with backyard behind , and rug-sized gardens in front , they are used to a spaciousness that is due not to planning but to the lack of plan . |
| 11 | For them he is a dark god but a necessary one , for they live in a violent world and must be able to fight when called upon to do so . |
| 12 | Outside is a different matter — protective covers for the cabin and cowling are an excellent idea as long as they let in a free flow of air to minimise condensation . |
| 13 | But let's have a look , as they say in a certain quiz show , at what he turned down . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , it is accepted that , appearing as they do in a penal statute , they fall to be construed narrowly rather than widely . |
| 15 | What should be said is that there is still a most definite need for research in some neglected , technical areas , but more particularly in integrating the social and economic factors as they occur in a local situation . |